Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * (C) Copyright 2009 Nuxeo SAS (http://nuxeo.com/) and contributors. * * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License * (LGPL) version 2.1 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * Contributors: * Nuxeo - initial API and implementation * */ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { /** * Returns the index of a node . * * @param elt * @return */ public static final int getElementIdx(Node elt) { int count = 0; for (Node sib = elt.getPreviousSibling(); sib != null; sib = sib.getPreviousSibling()) { if (sib.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && ((Element) sib).getTagName().equals(((Element) elt).getTagName())) count++; } return count; } }